Sauced and Confused (Lost Remix)

StatelineReefer · Dec 5, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
Weird Sheets about...

The last few days, many LPS aren't opening to full potential. Tissue looks fine across the board but All of the torches are Maybe 1/3 inflated. Both Trachy's are shrivveley. None of the acans looking right. Hammers are inflated, but not looking right. Way too much neck.

No3: 13.7
Po4: .135 and lowering slowly with GFO
Alk is maintaining between 8.5 & 9 Dkh dosing by hand.

This is happening at high, medium, and lower light areas. Flow has not changed.

SPS are looking good. Softies and mushrooms are fine. Lots of LPS not affected..

The nasty algae which I believe are diatoms instead of dinos don't seem to be at all affecting the corals in question. I'm not doing much about it. Waiting for it to consume the silicates and hopefully die off.

There is only passive carbon in this system.

What am I not seeing/thinking about?

How's ph?

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

StatelineReefer said:
How's ph?

Couldn't tell you. Don't test it.

Petcrazyson · Dec 5, 2022

fishguy242 · Dec 5, 2022

just well fed ?? for now,considering just added all the new fish and feeding tank more ?

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

I've never really fed coral directly with any sort of regularity. The water is a lot cleaner right now than it has been in a long time as measured by nitrates but with the new gang in I'm sure those will be climbing up.

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
Weird Sheets about...

The last few days, many LPS aren't opening to full potential. Tissue looks fine across the board but All of the torches are Maybe 1/3 inflated. Both Trachy's are shrivveley. None of the acans looking right. Hammers are inflated, but not looking right. Way too much neck.

No3: 13.7
Po4: .135 and lowering slowly with GFO
Alk is maintaining between 8.5 & 9 Dkh dosing by hand.

This is happening at high, medium, and lower light areas. Flow has not changed.

SPS are looking good. Softies and mushrooms are fine. Lots of LPS not affected..

The nasty algae which I believe are diatoms instead of dinos don't seem to be at all affecting the corals in question. I'm not doing much about it. Waiting for it to consume the silicates and hopefully die off.

There is only passive carbon in this system.

What am I not seeing/thinking about?

Looks like what I'm looking at tankwise.

Well was. Mine were definitely dinos . Stringy and grew fast fast

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
Looks like what I'm looking at tankwise.

Well was. Mine were definitely dinos . Stringy and grew fast fast

I've got almost no bubbles with the snot, and it's Mostly contained to new rock and new sand.

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
I've got almost no bubbles with the snot, and it's Mostly contained to new rock and new sand.

That's really good. Probably silicates as you said.

Gone in a jiff

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Uhh.... Maybe just showing some stress from new lights and tank?

You moved them over a couple weeks ago. From what I've seen coral shows stress after the fact.

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
That's really good. Probably silicates as you said. Gone in a jiff

The jiff needs to hurt TF up..

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
Uhh.... Maybe just showing some stress from new lights and tank?

You moved them over a couple weeks ago. From what I've seen coral shows stress after the fact.

It would be very coincidental to me if different groupings of corals, after displaying fine for a few weeks, all started showing the same symptoms at the same time across varying places in the tank, due to a stress response. Not impossible.

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
The jiff needs to hurt TF up..

Mother in law reported that corals all were still glowing, that's a good sign right

No dead fish good sign

No skimmate coming out of the skimmer idk

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
It would be very coincidental to me if different groupings of corals, after displaying fine for a few weeks, all started showing the same symptoms at the same time across varying places in the tank, due to a stress response. Not impossible.

Hmm .... But they all moved at that time. The only similarity?

Stang67 · Dec 5, 2022

Any possibility of any leaching of metals from anything? Maybe just need more nutrients.

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 5, 2022

Stang67 said:
Any possibility of any leaching of metals from anything? Maybe just need more nutrients.

Unlikely and I've got a newer bag of cuprisorb in the sump.

Nate Chalk · Dec 5, 2022

Maybe you could try yelling at them

shootingstar_reef · Dec 6, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
It would be very coincidental to me if different groupings of corals, after displaying fine for a few weeks, all started showing the same symptoms at the same time across varying places in the tank, due to a stress response. Not impossible.

I believe there is a delayed response from coral to new conditions, so them looking fine for a couple weeks before physically showing they're going through an adjustment sounds right...